My Collaborative Challenge

I’d like to issue a challenge of sorts. It’s not really a competition, but a small experiment in collaborative writing. Maybe it’s a means to connect to each other a little further too.

I’d like to see who would be willing to add a bit of their voice to a story that I begin. I’ll write the first paragraph then send it to the next person for paragraph two, who will return it to me to send it to the next person for paragraph three and so on. The difficult part will be to create a story that has some semblance of meaning within the following guidelines:

It must be all fiction.
The end result must be between 500 and 750 words.
No one can alter what was written by the previous contributors.
It has to be back to me no later than Monday, August 27, 2006.

I know it may not sound very difficult, but the first people to contribute have to keep in mind how many people follow. I would start the process by sending the first paragraph to the next person in line on Friday morning around 9:00 am EST (that’s per the US east coast). When it’s complete, I will post the result here on Tales of the Bearded Toad. It will not appear anywhere else and all those who contribute will be listed in an accompanying statement.

So if you’d like to participate, please send your email address to me at bhorne2x@yahoo.com or leave it in a comment below. I promise that I won’t use it for any other purpose but this exercise. I won’t even bother unless we get at least six participants, so invite your friends to join in. Thanks.